Blue Horseshoe loves Grant Bowman. This should be a lesson to us all: If you get released from an NFL team, take a desk job, hope your team makes it to the Super Bowl, pray for an injury, and hope you get re-signed to the practice squad before the bus leaves for the airport.

For me, the endless drama that is the McNabb-Owens story can be described in one tidy little sentence: The gift that keeps on giving. This makes the "Jerome Bettis is from Detroit" angle almost seem fresh.

I'm not sure what Jim Thomas means when he writes that Mike Martz has accepted an offer to become the Lions' offensive coordinator, only to add, "But it's not quite a done deal. As of mid-day Wednesday, contract terms had yet to be worked out." I don't think you've accepted an offer if you haven't agreed to a contract. But it sounds like this deal is going to get done, and if you're a Lions fan you have to be thrilled.

Scripps Howard News Service has conducted a study that concludes that NFL players often die young because they're too heavy. King Kaufman proposes that requiring players to play both offense and defense would force the largest players to shed some fat and improve their stamina, which would make them less likely to die of heart ailments.

Joey Porter is angry. Angry, angry, angry. Why so angry? Because Seattle tight end Jerramy Stevens has the unmitigated gall to actually believe that his team will win this game. How dare he! Seattle should be going into this game with the belief that they will lose; anything else is disrespectful to the Steelers. Then again, if Joey Porter is saying that the Seahawks have no right to say that they will win, isn't he disrespecting the Seahawks? They won more games, right?

The NFL Network had wall-to-wall coverage of Media Day, but some of the more, shall we say, ridiculous questions didn't make it on the air. No worries because this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article has it covered. My favorite? When Seahawks punter Tom Roen was asked, "If you had a nickel for every time someone said this game was about punting, how much money would you have?" He responded, "A nickel."

Scroll down and you'll see a blurb about Tony Kornheiser possibly joining Monday Night Football if Al Michaels moves over to NBC with John Madden. According to the story, Mike Tirico would be first in line to replace Michaels, but at this point it's mostly speculation. No word on whether Michaels wants out of his contract because he's slated to work with Joe Theismann. (free registration/bugmenot required)

This week Gregg Easterbrook has some thoughts on the Hall of Fame, discusses the NFL coaching carousel, and wonders why, "Jenna Elfman, who's tremendously good-looking, is nevertheless not pleasant to look at?" Easterbrook also provides an NFL team glossary, TMQ style.

Coming out of West Virginia, the knock on Chris Henry was that he had first round talent, but also had some character issues. Henry had a promising rookie year, but he was arrested in December for marijuana possession, and last weekend he was arrested again, this time on three firearms charges. Depending on how things work out with Henry and Sean Taylor, The Longest Yard 2 could be really good.